“The Harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there’s gold in letting go of them. ”

“It gets off to a pretty slow start, the main character does a total 180 about half way through, and the rest of the book is about his kid. It ends on a bit of a downer.”

“Come with me, Douglass; I will defend you with my life. I want you for a special purpose. When I strike, the bees will begin to swarm, and I shall want you to help hive them.”

“You don't have to give me flowers, Coburn. You don't even have to hold me. Let me hold you. - Honor Gillette”

“The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.”

“Find the problem, find the story.”

“Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.”